It was released in the summer of 1987 and quickly became popular with bulletin board system ( BBS ) operators and other users.

By the 1930s, Italian fascism had created a review board for popular culture.

Responding to popular disdain for the sometimes corrupt City Council, LaGuardia successfully proposed a reformed 1938 City Charter that created a powerful new New York City Board of Estimate, similar to a corporate board of directors.

Many types of surfing are popular on the island, including traditional surfing, windsurfing ( where the board is propelled by a sail ) and most recently kitesurfing.

It formed the basis for some early merchandise in the US in the 1960s, such as a popular model kit by Aurora Plastics Corporation, and a popular board game by Ideal Toys.

The Genus III edition of the popular board game Trivial Pursuit had a question that asked " Who wins in the Japanese version of King Kong vs.

Increasingly popular alternative construction materials include insulating concrete forms ( foam forms filled with concrete ), structural insulated panels ( foam panels faced with oriented strand board or fiber cement ), and light-gauge steel framing and heavy-gauge steel framing.

In the early 1990s a popular solution to link PCs with the mainframes was the Irma board.

* To get a game started faster, some house rules allow a player with no pieces on the board to bring their first piece into play on any roll, on a 1 or a 6, or allow multiple tries to roll a 6 ( with three rolls being the most popular ).

The popular 1963 board game Mouse Trap, as well as its sequels Crazy Clock ( 1964 ), and Fish Bait ( 1965 ) are based on Rube Goldberg machines.

(), also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan.

Banana board is a term used to describe skateboards made of polypropylene that were skinny, flexible, with ribs on the underside for structural support and very popular during the mid-1970s.

Wargaming has changed dramatically over the years, from its roots in miniatures and board wargaming, to contemporary computer and computer assisted wargames ; however, both miniature and board wargames maintain a healthy, if small, hobby market with lighter games being popular with many ' non-wargamers '.

The mechanics and language have little in common with board and miniature games, but the general subject matter is popular.

They even inspired a popular board game, Hungry Hungry Hippos.

It also found itself popular among the academic world for research and analysis of audio, and for more clandestine operations, such as speech analysis and manipulation by the intelligence services, submarine sonar and sound analysis by the Navy, flight simulators for Boeing, and even by NASA as the core of the digital camera system on board the Galileo Probe sent to study and photograph Jupiter and its moons.

The words first came into popular usage among computer users with the increased popularity of bulletin board systems ( BBS ), facilitated by the widespread distribution and implementation of dial-up internet access in the 1970s.

Cluedo (; Clue in North America ) is a popular murder / mystery-themed deduction board game originally published by Waddingtons in Leeds, England in 1949.

Fanoron-Dimy is played on a 5 × 5 board and Fanoron-Tsivy is played on a 9 × 5 board-Tsivy being the most popular.

* Squatter ( game ), a popular Australian board game

Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions.

Like the governor, the members of the departmental board and the mayor were elected for five-year terms in direct, popular elections.

it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

" Readers of the KLOV credit it as the seventh most popular game.

Notable popular games particularly associated with the Electron include: Crystal Castles ( video game ) | Crystal Castles is an example of a popular arcade game officially ported to the Electron ( US Gold ).

The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, commonly known as the Atari 5200, is a video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari Inc. as a higher end complementary console for the popular Atari 2600.

Previous game consoles sometimes had a difficult time replicating the arcade experience in home versions of popular arcade games.

A conversion of the popular computer game was released by GCC in 2004.

Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland.

Being particularly popular in the British garrison town Poona ( now Pune ), the game also came to be known as Poona.

It is based on Taito's popular 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble, featuring characters and themes from that game.

As with many popular arcade games, experienced players ( who can complete the game relatively easily ) become much more interested in the secondary challenge of obtaining a high score ( which involves a lot more skill and strategy ).

Despite popular opinion the substitution did not change the game as Franz Beckenbauer had scored before Charlton left the field, hence Charlton had failed to cancel out the German.

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

The game became very popular and led to a long series of sequels and spin-offs.

In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a popular bidding convention that was developed by Easley Blackwood.

He became a popular game show panelist, appearing mostly on Password and The Hollywood Squares.

When a game becomes sufficiently popular, so that people often play it with strangers, there is a need for a generally accepted set of rules.

Seep is a classic Indian fishing card game mainly popular in northern parts of India.

That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

No other popular idol is accorded even that much grace.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.

But as the popular response suggests, the potentiality of the Peace Corps is very great.

A salad with greens and tomato is a popular and wonderfully healthful addition to a meal, but add an avocado and you have something really special.

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

In California is located one of the most popular of the national parks -- Yosemite.

Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.

For those who need or want and can afford another car, buying one and driving it on the grand tour, then shipping it home, is one popular plan for a do-it-yourself pilgrimage.

Leasing a car is not as common or as popular as renting a car in Europe, but for long periods it will be unquestionably more economical and satisfactory.

The data is now interpreted in conjunction with a price chart, usually of a popular stock average.

Again, contrary to popular belief, there is nothing crazy or frantic about Parker either musically or emotionally.

Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.

A political scientist writes of the growth of `` alienated voters '', who `` believe that voting is useless because politicians or those who influence politicians are corrupt, selfish and beyond popular control.

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

No reference is made to the possibility of recording other than popular music in this manner, and it would not seem to lend itself well to serious music.

But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.